{"id":2736,"date":"2020-12-14T12:21:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2020-12-15T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:22:42","slug":"the-advisory-committee-on-immunization-practices-interim-recommendation-for-use-of-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-united-states-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/14\/the-advisory-committee-on-immunization-practices-interim-recommendation-for-use-of-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-united-states-december-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices\u2019 Interim Recommendation for Use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine \u2014 United States, December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec 12, 2020, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices issued an interim recommendation for use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in persons in the US aged \u226516 years to prevent COVID-19. Vaccination consists of 2 doses administered intramuscularly 3 weeks apart.\u00a0The recommendation was primarily informed by findings from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II\/III trial (n = 43,252, median age 52 years) reporting 95% efficacy in preventing symptomatic laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 among persons without previous SARS-CoV-2 infection during a median 2-months of follow-up.<\/p>\n<p><i>Oliver et al. (Dec 13, 2020). The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices\u2019 Interim Recommendation for Use of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine \u2014 United States, December 2020. MMWR. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6950e2\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm6950e2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Dec 12, 2020, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices issued an interim recommendation for use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in persons in the US aged \u226516 years to prevent COVID-19. Vaccination consists of 2 doses administered intramuscularly 3 weeks apart.\u00a0The recommendation was primarily informed by findings from a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase II\/III&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/14\/the-advisory-committee-on-immunization-practices-interim-recommendation-for-use-of-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-united-states-december-2020\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2737,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}